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    Deltaic environments typically exhibit coarsening-upward successions from offshore muds to sandy mouth bars with small-scale cross-stratification. These are overlain by distributary channel deposits with larger sedimentary structures and subaqueous levees grading into interdistributary sediments. During transgression, intense wave action transforms mouth bar sands into barrier islands that can later drown, forming offshore sand shoals, while increasing salinity leads to partial drowning of the delta plain.

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    Deltaic environments typically exhibit coarsening-upward successions from offshore muds to sandy mouth bars with small-scale cross-stratification. These are overlain by distributary channel deposits with larger sedimentary structures and subaqueous levees grading into interdistributary sediments. During transgression, intense wave action transforms mouth bar sands into barrier islands that can later drown, forming offshore sand shoals, while increasing salinity leads to partial drowning of the delta plain.

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    The Niger Delta Morphology2

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    Deltaic environments typically exhibit coarsening-upward successions from offshore muds to sandy mouth bars with small-scale cross-stratification. These are overlain by distributary channel deposits with larger sedimentary structures and subaqueous levees grading into interdistributary sediments. During transgression, intense wave action transforms mouth bar sands into barrier islands that can later drown, forming offshore sand shoals, while increasing salinity leads to partial drowning of the delta plain.

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    Deltaic environments

    • The typical progradational delta succession exhibits a


    transition from prodelta offshore muds through silty to sandy
    (mouth bar) deposits (coarsening-
    (coarsening-upward succession), the
    latter commonly with small-
    small-scale (climbing) cross stratification
    and overlain by:
    • Distributary channel deposits (sometimes tidal channel deposits)
    with larger scale sedimentary structures
    • Subaqueous levees grading upward into interdistributary
    sediments
    • Transgression occurs upon delta-
    delta-lobe switching, leading to:
    • Intense wave reworking and transformation of mouth bar/beach
    ridge sands into barrier islands
    • Drowning of barrier islands leading to offshore sand shoals
    • Increasing salinity and eventual drowning of (part of) the delta
    plain

    EaES 455-
    455-4 34

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